The Bennett Apartments
20-30 E. Morris Avenue, Buffalo, NY
Style: Art Deco
During the great Depression (1929-1940), what little housing was built in Buffalo (and generally throughout the U.S.) was in the form of apartments using Art Deco design.
The Bennett Apartments have these Art Deco characteristics:
- Flat roof
- Yellow brick exterior with bands of vertical and horizontal brown brick ornamentation
- Groups of 6 string courses (continuous horizontal bands set in the surface of an exterior wall or projecting from it and usually molded)
- Entrance bays and other narrow bays serve as engaged (partly sunk) towers
- Vertical emphasis created by entrance bays with stylized tree of life motif (pattern)
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Construction: Steel with brick facing: cream-colored brick with brown brick trim |
Apartments extend from E. Morris to Benwood Aves. Photograph from E. Morris. |
Note horizontal |
Detail from previous photo: vertical bands on side of building. |
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Entrance bay helps give the appearance of
verticality, one of the features of Art Deco. The stylized tree of life motif |
Round canopy over entrance |
Bays are created by relatively slight projection of bricks |
Horizontal string courses are created by change in brick color and slight projection of bricks |
